Facebook aims to speed up the delivery of news on the companys mobile apps with Instant Articles. The New York Times, National Geographic and others will use it to publish interactive articles directly on Facebooks iPhone app.People already share a lot of articles on Facebook, particularly on... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro’s '14th Deadly Sin,' released May 4, made its first appearance on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list at #2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales at Hachette UK fell 4% year-on-year for the first quarter of 2015, partially due to an “unfavourable” VAT effect on ebooks, parent company Lagardere has said. Hachette UK said it had “steady sales in print and digital” in the first quarter of the year, with its performance “broadly in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A title from Welsh press Honno has won the Bread & Roses award for radical publishing. Here We Stand: Women Changing the World, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, is a collection of interviews and articles in which 17 British women campaigners talk about their activism.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
India's Ritesh Batra is to direct the film adaptation of The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes' Booker-winning novel, with British actor Jim Broadbent in the lead. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Buenos Aires, with 2.8 million people, has 734 bookstores, or 25 for every 100,000 people — the highest per capita in the world. The post What City Has More Bookstores Per Capita Than Any Other? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and writing coach William Zinsser, who penned the best-selling book On Writing Well, dies in New York, aged 92. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to produce a new summer paperback edition of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist for publication on 16th July. The first paperback version was published in January. The July edition will be the second special edition for the book, following the Waterstones hardback last year, and will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Using location-based wireless technology, S&S is offering a complimentary selection of full-text frontlist titles to visitors at airports, hotels and museums around the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Instant Articles, Facebook has created a rich, multimedia platform to host publishers' stories, and ensure that you never leave.As social networking has taken over the web, and users no longer visit publishers' homepages to find news, Facebook has become a primary funnel for readers,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neel Mukherjee has won the £10,000 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former press secretary Perino's memoir is currently near the top of multiple bestseller lists. It was released this past April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ruppel, formerly president of McGraw-Hill Education's professional division, has joined Phaidon as chief operating officer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emma Cox, a headteacher from Devon, has won this year’s New Children’s Author Prize, organised by the National Literacy Trust and Bloomsbury. Malkin Moonlight, chosen from a shortlist of six books, is about a cat who is looking for his friend Roux. He comes across a group of cats at a recycling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alan C. Fox, author of 'People Tools for Business: 50 Strategies for Building Success, Creating Wealth, and Finding Happiness' (SelectBooks/Midpoint, 9781590792872) will appear on the 'Meredith Vieira Show' on Wednesday, May 13. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Media companies increasingly want to publish their articles, videos and graphics directly to social networks and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Call it modern syndication.Facebook, for instance, is talking with media companies about publishing articles within the social... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
New initiative, which also involves BuzzFeed and the New York Times, speeds the process of loading news articles on the social networkBBC News and the Guardian are the first UK media companies to sign up to a new Facebook initiative that will transform the way users read news articles.Facebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sun, sand, and--sin? Shelve the beach reads for books that explore the shadows of evil-doing and guilt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Connect Books is consulting with 12 people in its Bradford office as the company continues to improve the “efficiency and flexibility” of its library supply service. Bertrams, which supplies libraries on behalf of Connect Books, has headquarters in Norwich but also an office in Bradford which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s long-rumored plan to directly host articles from news organizations will start on Wednesday, concluding months of delicate negotiations between the Internet giant and publishers that covet its huge audience but fear its growing p ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]